extrapolation

This is the other end of extrapolation. There is a lot of stuff in the world, but its finite stuff.

The extrapolation is misguided at best. There are so many things wrong in this article that I will not take the time to address them all.

So, your intuition that the extrapolation was shaky is correct.

A: No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation. These books are playful in the sense that they regard ideas as things to experiment with.

It's just the obvious extrapolation of computing technology, and it won't be stopped by the old guard. If you disagree, care to put our thoughts in a time capsule and see who looks more foolish in 10 years?

Gotta be honest, that seems like a wild and illogical extrapolation to me based on this anecdotal story. This is not the only inference you can make.

Of course that kind of extrapolation is mostly just wishful thinking, but Google's success in this market is impressive. IMO they've raised the quality bar for all the other browsers in a very short time.

It was an extrapolation from a single case study in the 1930s, of captive wolves. It has since been debunked, and is not even applicable to wolves, never mind domestic dogs.

While useful, this is more of a trend analysis and extrapolation rather than actual prediction. The title made me hope of something that would highlight some potential bug nests from static code analysis or the like.

And through extrapolation, I imagine that the movement among the top 4% is even more severely diminished. It would be truly exceptional for even the child of someone in the top 4% to find themselves in poverty or for that matter the middle class.

Ah extrapolation by mean difference. My favourite part is the assumption that growth will continue to accelerate as market share increases, when firstly, that doesn't make any sense, and secondly, we have data from Firefox's growth showing that the opposite happens.

That's a far cry from HP taking someone's design decisions for a all-in-one computer, doing no extrapolation, and using them to make a competing all-in-one computer.

More seriously the extrapolation just doesnt make sense. a hudred years ago someone extrapolated the city sizes and concluded that urban civilisation was doomed because of all the horse manure produced by a 'civillised' city.

I'm very much in favor of these cameras, but there's one extrapolation that few have proposed: Why not encourage private citizens to record their public lives? Most of the arguments for recording police apply to everyone: Allegations are quickly discovered to be true or false.

The big problem I have with this kind of analysis is that it's all extrapolation based on existing conditions, with the assumption that nothing disruptive will happen from here on out. You could have done the same analysis at various points in time and concluded that Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry and iOS were all going to dominate the future.

It makes an incredible amount of sense when you allow yourself to experience it as the author did--this isn't some here's "a few cases of explicit sexism" article and then an extrapolation of "the reason everyone is saying rude things to her." This is a here's-all-the-bullshit-I-experienced-in-rough-chronologically-incessant-order-until-I-broke article.